Category Archives: Personal Letters
Letter from Private Thomas McGuire, D Troop, 7th Cavalry
My Dear friend we had a pretty hard battle with Big foots band on the 29th Dec. We killed over 300 of them. Private Thomas McGuire was a twenty-four-year-old Irish immigrant in Captain Godfrey’s D Troop. He enlisted in New … Continue reading
Major Samuel Marmaduke Whitside’s Campaign Letters
I am fully convinced the trouble will terminate without a shot being fired. The 7th Cavalry arrived at the Pine Ridge agency on 27 November 1890 and Major S. M. Whitside, as with many of the officers, began writing letters … Continue reading
The Letters of First Sergeant John B. Turney, C Troop, 7th Cavalry
You asked if any of the “friendlies” took the warpath. I should think they did. There were two thousand “Bucks” went out of here the day we had the fight at Wounded Knee. It was them we had the second days … Continue reading
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Sam Russell
Army at Wounded Knee 